Show A ridiculous ULOUS FALSEHOOD following special to the herald appeared in this mornings issue ot of that journal it gives a fair sample of the associated press dispatches sent from this city 0 washington feb 8 the following Is published in this afternoons papers a ers as a press dispatch irom from salt alt ts ate lake A strong mormon lobby left here yesterday lor for washington to work against the edmunds tucker bill at vue its members are E A smith of the council W WW W riter biter speaker ot the house in the last legislature mayor armstrong and other officials the talk here is that they go as monogamous amous cormons mormons prepared to give up polygamy provided the cormons mormons be not pressed stad and that utah be admitted as a state after which they would dor do as they pleased tue the Gt gentiles 16 here are much discouraged at the delay and begin to dread another failure of congress to assert itself itself 0 against mormon trea treason sob 11 the statement about the gentlemen named going east as a mormon lobby is an unqualified falsehood in the he first place hon W W riter is at home ome and sat serenely in his place last evening as a member of the city Cop council uncil at the regular meeting of that body the trip eastward of judge ellas elias A smith and mayor armstrong has had not the slightest political significance recently salt bait lake county decided to erect a new jail and as it was wis desirable desira a ble that it should the be of ef modern and improved style the county court appointed judge smith and mr armstrong to go east and there inspect some same of the most lecent ly erected prisons and in the event of an iron building on the rotary principle being deemed the most suitable tk visit some of the manufactories manu factories with a view to making preliminary arrangements range ments in relation to obtaining materials the loyal league telegraph i falsifier should call upon mr riter kiter and ask him whether he is in the east on a lobbying elp expedition edition or at home |